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Member since 04/06/2018
Name: 1st Art Gallery
Location: New York US
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was the first child born to George Washington Whistler, a prominent engineer, and Anna Matilda McNeill (his father\'s second wife). At the Ruskin trial (see below), Whistler claimed the more exotic St. Petersburg, Russia as his birthplace: \"I shall be born when and where I want, and I do not choose to be born in Lowell,\" he declared. In later years, he would play up his mother\'s connection to Southern and Scottish roots, and present himself as an impoverished Southern aristocrat (although to what extent he truly sympathized with the Southern cause during the American Civil War remains unclear).
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